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Unit: Cataloging & Metadata Services
Date last updated: 07/23/2020
Date of next review: March 20212024
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Genre Terms
(Coded 655 _7 , with $2 rbgenr at end)
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- Addresses [i.e. speeches]
- Auction catalogs
- Broadsides
- Dialogues
- Diaries
- Essays
- Exhibition catalogs
- Fables
- Fiction [may be used for short stories or works of fiction that don't fall neatly into any other category]
- Juvenile literature
- Lectures
- Legislative addresses
- Novellas
- Novels
- Plays
- Poems
- Prospectuses
- Publishers' catalogs
- Satires
- Screenplays
- Sermons
- Short stories
- Songs
- Theater programs
- Three deckers
- Volvelles (this one need not be subdivided)
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Note: For all of the RBMS thesauri other than Genre Terms, each term used is followed by a word in parentheses which identifies the thesaurus it comes from. Check the "Application" section of the Introduction to the thesaurus to see what term is appropriate to use. In the Printing and Publishing Evidence thesaurus, each term there are two different possible subject categories for the terms. Each term there has a subject category note to specify whether it's a printing term or a publishing term.
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- Authors' presentation copies (Provenance)
- Extra-illustrated copies (Provenance)
- Presentation copies (Provenance)
- Prize books (Provenance)
- Publishers' copies (Provenance)
Binding Terms
(Coded 655 _7, with $2 rbbin at end)
Binding terms we commonly use (these don't come up often enough to need subdivision)
- Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
- Bosses (Binding)
- Clasps (Binding)
- Fore-edge paintings (Binding)
- Tree calf bindings (Binding)
- Vellum bindings (Binding)
- Wrappers (Binding)
Printing and Publishing Evidence
(Coded 655 _7, with $2 rbpri or $2 rbpub at end)
Printing or publishing terms we commonly use (these also don't need subdivision)
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